First of all, it was great to see professional beach volleyball return to Australian Beaches this summer. All thanks to efforts of beach volleyball nutter (and obviously highly skilled event organiser) Arthur Klonis. The Renault Beach Volleyball was a spectacular success and probably one of the best tours Australia has seen. The Danish team of…
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Australian Beach Volleyball Commission – NEW!
We have just been forwarded a document from a group of prominent beach volleyball people who are creating a new organisation called the Australian Beach Volleyball Commission (ABVC). The idea here seems to be to get control of the sport of beach volleyball into the hands of the people who are actually involved in the…
VIC beach volleyball open 2011
Here are the results from the Victorian beach volleyball open for 2011. The mens division had an international flavour with our local foreigners Bo Soderberg & Kirk Pitman teaming up to defend their beach against the French brothers, Kevin Ces & Andy Ces and the german world Champions Jonas Reckermann & Julius Brink. Unfortunately the…
QLD Open Beach Volleyball 2011
Some interesting controversies were reported from the QLD open, with light effecting play on the Saturday evening. Some games were stopped and had to be replayed the following morning. The most notable was the clash between Hinchley/Rohkamper and Palmer/Bawden. We are told that Hinchley/Rohkamper had 5 match points when the tournament director insisted that the…
SA Open Beach Volleyball 2011
I am finally getting around to catching up on this seasons tour. Once again, we don’t have any consistant organisation sothere is no central location to find all the results. (Not that I know of anyway). So here it is, starting with the Womens South Australian Open for Beach Volleyball 2011 Place Team Rating Points…